Table headers are renderized under tbody tag and causes poor integration with Google Docs, XPath and another systems

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      Currently tables are rendered like this:

      
//Wiki
|| foo || bar ||
| 1 | a |
| 2 | b| 

//Rendered HTML (only relevant part)
<table class='confluenceTable'><tbody> 
<tr> 
<th class='confluenceTh'> Foo </th> 
<th class='confluenceTh'> Bar </th> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td class='confluenceTd'> 1 </td> 
<td class='confluenceTd'> a </td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td class='confluenceTd'> 2 </td> 
<td class='confluenceTd'> b</td> 
</tr> 
</tbody></table>

      This is incorrect, because headers are under <tbody> tag.

      The correct html renderization would be:

      
//A better HTML renderization for tables - Note thead and (optional) tfoot tags
<table class='confluenceTable'>

<thead>
<tr> 
<th class='confluenceTh'> Foo </th> 
<th class='confluenceTh'> Bar </th> 
</tr> 
</thead>

<tfoot>
</tfoot>

<tbody> 
<tr> 
<td class='confluenceTd'> 1 </td> 
<td class='confluenceTd'> a </td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td class='confluenceTd'> 2 </td> 
<td class='confluenceTd'> b</td> 
</tr> 
</tbody>

</table>

      This will be improve anothers systems - like Google Docs (importHtml or importXml functions) or XPath expressions or JSON/JQuery objects - to interact better with Confluence pages.

            Assignee:
            Steve Haffenden (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            Marcelo Mrack
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